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RE: Sampling Rate to Choose in Audio Midi Settings in Mac.

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In Reply to: RE: Sampling Rate to Choose in Audio Midi Settings in Mac. posted by dgad on November 01, 2009 at 13:46:45

Yep, it's a PITA.

It's interesting from an engineering point of view as their perspective is something like: "Why should any application running on the computer have special access to the hardware settings? All applications can access to this hardware and, what do you want, for one application to lock out all other apps?"

Of course this "no application is special" perspective is logical for a general purpose computing device. Equally natural is that those of us who use our computers as the source for music playback really do want our music player to have special rights to the hardware settings.

So I think the right kind of solution here is to have another setting in iTunes -- something like "Let me takeover Audio Midi" and other applications (like the new email message sound in your email client) would just have to be satisfied with whatever iTunes does.

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